SOC 371 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Stereotype, Occupational Segregation, Sex Segregation
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Women and men and work chapter 4: sex segregation in the workplace. Although the extent and form of segregation vary, american women and men are still often concentrated in different kinds of work. The most immediate consequence of sex segregation is that it lowers women"s earnings relative to men. First, women tend to be overrepresented in lower paying jobs and men in higher paying ones. Second, occupations that are predominantly female tend to pay less to both male and female incumbents that predominantly male occupations pay. Once jobs and equipment are designed with a certain sex in mind, segregation tends to perpetuate itself. The sex typing of work does not invariably advantage men. First, much of the job growth around the world has tended to favor service occupations, which are generally female dominated, rather than production ones, which are more often male. Second, many occupations reserved for men have health draw backs.
